On the Beach
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1959
2h 14m
English
Science Fiction, Drama, Romance
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On the Beach
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
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Cast
Dwight Towers
Moira Davidson
Julian Osborn
Lt. Peter Holmes
Mary Holmes
Lt. Cmdr. Farrel
Ralph Swain
Lt. Sunderstrom
Lt. Hosgood
Lt. Benson
Ackerman
Bill Davidson
Dr. King
Adm. Bridie
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
Written By: John Paxton (Screenplay), Nevil Shute (Novel)
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ltcomdata
CONTAINS SPOILERS4 years ago
The movie is powerful. The book is better, yes, but only because there is more room in the book to do what the movie faithfully also did: to portray the quiet way in which the survivors of global, nuclear holocaust, choose the end of their lives. Unlike most movies dealing with this theme, chaos i More
drqshadow
/10 4 years ago
A coastal Australian population (and the US submarine coincidentally docked nearby) awaits the inevitable, weeks after the rest of the world was wiped out by a wave of nuclear-powered, mutually-assured destruction.
There's an eerie sense of normalcy to the landscape, by far the film's gre More
There's an eerie sense of normalcy to the landscape, by far the film's gre More
Keeper70
7 years ago
Made in 1959 On The Beach is as relevant today as it was then. Simply put Neville Shute’s story says only one thing – in a war involving weapons of mass destruction – although that was never a contemporary phrase – will end with no winners. Those that will be left will have a short time to r More
John Chard
6 years ago
Like watching paint dry.
Stanley Kramer and John Paxton adapt from Nevil Shute's novel. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson star, with music by Ernest Gold and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.
After a global nuclear war, the inhabitants of Australia r More
Stanley Kramer and John Paxton adapt from Nevil Shute's novel. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson star, with music by Ernest Gold and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.
After a global nuclear war, the inhabitants of Australia r More
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